Pier House, Ulsta, Yell

Pier House in Ulsta, Yell, is a former pier building from the later 19th century, now functioning as a shop. It is a single-storey structure with a loft and has a symmetrical, rectangular plan. The walls are made of harled and painted rubble, with painted margins around the doors and windows.

The southeast elevation is symmetrical, featuring a central 2-leaf flush-beaded timber door with a 2-pane fanlight above it. Flanking this door are 16-pane timber fixed-light shop windows. The outer bays contain 2-leaf flush-beaded timber doors with plate glass fanlights. Above, there are 4-pane timber sash and case windows, along with stone dormerheads in the dormers that break the eaves between the bays on either side of the center.

On the southwest gable, there is a 4-pane timber fixed-light window to the right at ground level, and a harled former stair landing with a projecting parapet on the outer left. In the gablehead at the center, there is a vertically-boarded timber loft door, supported by stugged sandstone corbels that hold up a timber platt.

The roof is covered with purple-grey slate and features concrete skew-copes. There are rendered single-flue gablehead stacks with copes and circular cans.